In Asset Management Suite (AMS) version 7 software purchases are linked to software licenses. A software purchase that is entered into the system but not linked to a software license is the same as throwing away those software licenses that were purchased. They will never be counted in the software compliance report. What a waste!
In normal business process you would not skip this step but it can happen; especially if you are migrating from version 6.5 where software purchases were not permanently linked to a software license contract. The new software management framework and licensing model allows us to look for orphaned software purchases, those that are not currently linked up to a software license, and correct the situation.
The following report will list the unlinked software purchases and with a right-click action, permit you to edit it and link it to a software license contract record.
SELECT [Name], [_ResourceGuid] FROM vSoftwarePurchase WHERE [_ResourceGuid] NOT IN (select SoftwarePurchaseGuid from vContract_SoftwareLicensePurchases)
If you have done it right, it should look something like the following:
Here is what it will look like
Note: See another Connect article to allow you to assign a software license from editing a software purchase. The article is called Associating New Software Purchase to Software License in 7.0.
If you did get errors, you can go to the Data Source tab and then the Resolved Query tab to try and figure out where you might have done a typo.
I hope this helps you save money by not over purchasing software entitlements because they were not properly linked to the correct application.
Again you have saved me months of painstaking head scratching